“You do not know me.”

“No; but I know of you.”

“Then why did you come; why don’t you go?” The blue eyes looked with passionate resentment at her.

“Because I have come to see you; because I wish to shake hands with you.”

“Why?”

“Why?”

“Why do you wish to do that?”

“Because I wish to be your friend. May we not be friends? I am not much older than you, I think.”

“You are centuries younger. Who sent you here? Dr. Kemp?”

“No one sent me; I came of my own free will.”